Android How to make a call that includes “#” or “p” in the dial?

Question

I need to make calls in my Android app that includes \"#\" or \"p\" in the dial.

If I use the next code:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CAL         


        

Answer 1

You can not parse such special numbers with an URI since these are not compliant to tel: standard. (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3966.txt Page 6ff) You might want to use ACTION_DIAL and give the user the possibility to enter the number himself. Maybe then the phone interprets this as the pause signal p is intended for. To send such pause signals, check Alex Klimashevsky's answer.

Answer 2

Check this out, hope it helps :)

Some phones don’t have “p” character, but “,” (comma), somewhere it is “T” and if your phone does not have these fancy characters available, try “*” or “#“. Hopefully one of this characters will work. Beware, on some phones are letters case sensitive, so P can not work.

• http://rekrowten.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/special-characters-in-telephone-number/

Answer 3

Try tel:629941945%2322412 instead of tel:629941945#22412

%23 will be replaced with #

Answer 4

Try to use others symbol for pause. Look at http://androidforums.com/android-applications/6733-how-do-i-dial-extension.html or http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7514 But! As I see threre are not one solution and this is depends of phone model

Answer 5

I have solved this problem Here is the code solving it.

Intent shortcutIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CALL, Uri.parse("tel:"+Uri.encode("*111*2#")));
startActivity(shortcutIntent);

Its working fine at my end. I hope its also helpful to you guys...

Answer 6

Try using "," (comma) instead of p. No idea about "#" though, sorry.